Handy Cafe, Inc. v. Justices of the Superior Court

■This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing a complaint, as amended, for failure to state a claim upon which relief could be granted.

On March 21, 1957, Handy Cafe, Inc., a Massachusetts corporation, filed its complaint under the Civil Rights Act (42 U.S.C.A. § 1983) and under the jurisdictional Act pursuant thereto (28 U.S.C. § 1343). The defendants, not named, were described in the complaint as “the members of the Superior Court and Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.” It was alleged that by various acts and omissions of the defendants, under color of their…